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Pride Month at the PMA

Abstract design of natural forms in yellow, green, orange, red, purple, blue, and white gouache on paper.

Bloodroot (Forest Floor) (detail), 2024, by Katie Kaplan © Katie Kaplan

When it comes to celebrating Pride, the month of June is only just a beginning. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is committed to remaining an inclusive and safe space for LGBTQIA+ individuals throughout the year to further a shared mission of ongoing support and visibility. We’re eager to lift up local communities, events, collaborations, and art from our collection by members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

For Pride month, we’re excited to celebrate the evolving nature of LGBTQIA+ identity, using the spirit of diversity as our guiding principle. See below for more information about what’s happening on our campus this June.

Photo courtesy of the Wassaic Project.

Artist Collaborator: Katie Kaplan

Katie Kaplan is a visual artist working in Philadelphia. Her focus is on printmaking and expands into sculpture, textiles, and installation. She has shown work nationally in solo and group exhibitions at galleries, community spaces, and print shops.

Kaplan has completed numerous artist residencies and fellowships, including the Apprentice Training Program at the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Cindi Royce Ettinger Fellowship at Second State Press, and The Denbo Fellowship at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Wassaic Project, and the Queer Materials Lab at Tyler School of Art.

She is frequently involved in applying her artistic labor to cultural organizing, activist art, and mutual aid projects, work that is intrinsic to her practice as a whole. Kaplan currently works as the studio technician in the Fibers and Material Studies Department at Tyler School of Art, where she stewards a natural dye garden.

Pride Month Starts Here

Join us on Friday, May 30, at 9:00 a.m. as we raise our Pride flag and unfurl Philadelphia's 600-foot Pride flag. Follow the flag as it makes its way around the city with Philly Pride 365!

The Pride flag and banner on the east steps of the PMA.

Crust Vegan Bakery in the Café

Sweeten your Pride Month with colorful confections made by Crust Vegan Baker. Pastries include: Chocolate Chip Cookies, Snickerdoodle Cookies, Strawberry Rhubarb Loaves, and Raspberry Blood Orange Pop Tart

Programs and Events

Free Audio Tour: Queer(ing) Art

Listen in as museum staff reflect on queer identity through some of their favorite artworks.

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A landscape showing a blizzard in a valley in snowcapped mountaintops.

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